Background
GIST, States Rights was born on September 3, 1831 in Union District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of the wealthy planter William Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Gist.
GIST, States Rights was born on September 3, 1831 in Union District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of the wealthy planter William Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Gist.
Private school, southern university, northern university, law school.
Young Gist attended preparatory school in Winnsboro, South Carolina, and graduated from South Carolina College in 1852 and from Harvard Law School in 1854. Before the war, he practiced law in Union District. He never married. He was a Democrat and a Methodist.
Gist, who was a brigadier in the South Carolina state militia in 1859, was an adjutant and inspector general on the staff of General R. S. Ripley prior to the battle of Fort Sumter. At the battle of First Manassas, he held the rank of colonel and was aide to General Barnard Bee. Gist organized South Carolina troops for the war and saw duty along the South Carolina coast and in the relief of Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1862.
On March 20, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general. In May 1863, he was assigned to the Army of Tennessee under General John L. Pemberton in Mississippi, and he served under General Joseph E. Johnston in Vicksburg. Gist participated in the battles of Jackson, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge in 1863 and in the Atlanta campaign of 1863-1864.
He accompanied General John B. Hood west and was killed on November 30, 1864, during the battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.